Complex. Unpredictable. Random.
We’ve had several cross-country moves and it never serves to amaze me how many errands are involved in leaving a general location. Some things can be done over the phone, but returning cable boxes, shutting off certain utilities, and picking up school records must be done in person. I find it all fairly tedious and [...]
Roegen dashes across the house removing his clothing as he goes. Knowing that he has a dirty diaper I race after him.
My path is blocked by Breydon.
Me: Breydon, move. I need to catch your brother.
Breydon: What’s the password?
Me: You’re right. Please move. I need to catch Roegen.
Breydon doesn’t move.
Breydon: The password is polkadot.
Me: Polkadot?
Breydon: Yeah, [...]
One of the “side effects” of autism that Breydon has is Picky Eater Syndrome. In fact, there was a point in his life where the only things that he would eat were Nutragrain bars (fortunately generics were okay), canned mandarin oranges, and crisby chicken nuggets. If we gave him something that was not on his [...]
Today is my mother-in-law’s birthday. I won’t say how old she is because although she doesn’t know about this blog I’m sure that if I tell anyone who passes through her age karma will come back to bite me in the nose. And I don’t know about you, but I have quite enough karma going [...]
Take two parents who love to talk. Add in 3 cats and 2 dogs. Read lots of books together building vocabulary. Before you know it a river of words will start streaming from your children’s mouths. Okay, I’m being flippant here. I realize that it’s not that easy . For those of you who have [...]
For the boys’ birthdays my parents usually give gift cards that I use to purchase something that we know the child wants. This saves on postage and ensures that they don’t buy something that we already planned to give. I then wrap the gift and have it ready to open on the big [...]
I awoke to the sounds of a little boy jumping through the house. Little boys make more noise than a herd of cats. “It my birthday today.” “It my birthday.” I can’t believe that it’s that time already. It feels like he just turned 6. Or 3. Or that yesterday [...]
In my opinion the biggest challenge in dealing with a child with high-functioning autism is socialization. I worry a lot about how Breydon interacts with his peers and whether or not they will accept him, his fixations, and his quirky mannerisms. So far things have gone well – according to his teacher his [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about autism since the day the bottom dropped out of my world a few weeks ago. I even had a blog entry sort of outlined in my mind when the plague hit, and since then things have been so crazy that I haven’t had time to do much of [...]
This is not going to be a well-written blog entry, but I have to get this out.
I don’t post a lot about Breydon’s autism. That hasn’t been deliberate, but to me that diagnosis doesn’t usually mean a lot. Sure, he has some quirks, like being able to name every single president, when that [...]
